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02-15-2022 , 05:04 PM

#4476

mrbaseball

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RIP P.J. O'Roark

He was always my favorite part of National Lampoon.

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02-15-2022 , 05:05 PM

#4477

harkin

Pooh-Bah

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Oh man - one of the absolute heroes of my youth.

RIP

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02-15-2022 , 06:40 PM

#4478

chillrob

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His articles about world travel he mostly wrote for Rolling Stone, later compiled into books, were some of the most interesting and hilarious things I've ever read.

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02-15-2022 , 06:43 PM

#4479

biggerboat

you're gonna need one

Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 49,854

Really loved his stuff. Sooo funny. Rip.

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02-15-2022 , 08:53 PM

#4480

Zeno

Le Misanthrope

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 22,617

P.J. was great; never boring. I had a few of his books. Always amusing and insightful at the same time. RIP.

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02-15-2022 , 10:25 PM

#4481

golddog

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Now I'm sad. While I didn't agree with some of what O'Rourke said and wrote, it was always well done and very entertaining.

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02-15-2022 , 11:37 PM

#4482

Phat Mack

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Think of all the things we wouldn't have if not for the uninhibited freedom and creativity of the 1960s: Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia ice cream, Narcotics Anonymous twenty-four-hour help lines, Cher, the Volks-wagen New Beetle, comedians who use the word "bullshit" on network TV (after 10:00 P.M.), cats named Chairman Meow, retro sixties clothing fashions, retro sixties hairstyles, retro sixties music fads, herpes.

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02-16-2022 , 12:56 AM

#4483

Phat Mack

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Politics is a natural function of the body politic. The body politic produces noisome and unseemly substances, among which are politicians. This is healthy. Much better that politicians be deposited in Washington, D.C., than that they be endured in the home or suffered in the workplace.

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02-21-2022 , 07:48 PM

#4484

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 75,380

Jane "Nightbirde" Marczewski, 31, to cancer.

I usually hate those singing competition shows, but this woman went viral last year after signing her original composition, "It's OK" for the judges of America's Got Talent. She got a "golden buzzer" from Simon Cowell but later had to drop out of the competition due to to her health.

Her audition was a lot more than just a performance.

Sad to see her go...the world could use the attitude and perseverance she showed.
And **** cancer.

"It's important that everyone knows that that I'm so much more than the bad things that happen to me."

"You can't wait for life not to be hard anymore before you decide to be happy."

--Jane Marczewski

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02-22-2022 , 09:59 PM

#4485

coolnout

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Man, ****ing Mark Lanegan dead at 57.

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02-24-2022 , 08:35 PM

#4486

harkin

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02-24-2022 , 09:14 PM

#4487

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 75,380

awwww....she was great. A truly iconic voice.

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02-24-2022 , 10:06 PM

#4488

REDeYeS00

always sloppy

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 25,826

things that should piss me off: folks hearing Sally Kellerman from M*A*S*H passed and proceed to talk about the TV show. Gary Burghoff is your only chance at getting that right without research.

and in a mostly unrelated note: Back to School appears to be an underrated movie.

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02-24-2022 , 10:10 PM

#4489

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 75,380

Back To School is pretty damn funny...Rodney on the diving board is about as funny as physical comedy gets.

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02-28-2022 , 08:09 PM

#4490

lastcardcharlie

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Anna Karen. Olive off On the Buses. Died in a house fire.

On the Buses is brilliant.

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03-04-2022 , 11:41 AM

#4491

notrebelatall

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RIP Shane Warne, one of the greatest cricketers ever.
I was lucky, or unlucky, enough to see him play against England.

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03-04-2022 , 01:25 PM

#4492

notrebelatall

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Our American friends probably won’t realise what a big deal Warne was.

The whole of Australia and all cricket fans are in a state of mourning.

I remember saying to my brother “He is trying to win the Ashes on his own”, and he very nearly did.

When he bowled Mike Gatting , Gatting stayed at the crease for a while, then walked a 100 yards off the pitch, and still couldn’t believe what had happened to him.

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03-04-2022 , 01:59 PM

#4493

Bighurt52235

I was born to eat hamburgers

Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 24,130

I'm only aware of him because of poker, but it sounded like he was the Michael Jordan of cricket.

Condolences, gents.

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03-04-2022 , 05:05 PM

#4494

lastcardcharlie

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Australian cricketer Rod Marsh died on the same day, and one of Warne's final acts was to tweet his condolences. Statistically, Marsh was the fourth best wicket-keeper, and Warne was the second best bowler, ever.

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03-05-2022 , 08:30 PM

#4495

harkin

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03-05-2022 , 09:23 PM

#4496

REDeYeS00

always sloppy

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is that buffalo butt?

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03-06-2022 , 03:14 PM

#4497

harkin

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Yep - I met him when I was a kid at Knott’s Berry Farm back in the day when your parents could drop you off (get rid of you for a while) and come back later in the day (my drop-off/pick-up was always in front of The Chicken Dinner).

We were next to each other at a shooting gallery and were both scoring good. He was very nice and having a great time, what a laugh he had. I only knew him from Laugh-In at the time.

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03-06-2022 , 03:18 PM

#4498

Zeno

Le Misanthrope

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 22,617

Just learned Terry Teachout died Jan 13, 2022. Look him up, he was an excellent writer and critic of the arts. He wrote a column for Commentary Magazine and other publications for years. Always inspired and insightful. RIP.

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03-06-2022 , 10:08 PM

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Phat Mack

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03-07-2022 , 08:25 AM

#4500

kioshk

Nixonian

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 93,120

I always thought of him as the forgotten brother on My Three Sons. I remember my parents telling us that little geeky Ernie had been adopted and how weird it all seemed when I finally saw Considine in some early reruns. Like Adam Cartwright that way.

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